Category Archives: Bryophytes

3. Saxicolous Mosses This is the fourth in a series of posts exploring the mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) of Whiteknights campus. My first three posts described the rich flora of bryophytes growing on trees (epiphytes) on campus. In this post … Continue reading →

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2. Epiphytic Liverworts This is the third in a series of posts exploring the mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) of the Whiteknights campus. My first two posts introduced some common and not so common mosses of trees (epiphytes), and this post will … Continue reading →

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This is the second in a series of posts exploring the mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) of Whiteknights campus. My first post covered epiphytic mosses and I promised there to introduce liverworts next. However, having found four more epiphytic mosses I have gotten myself … Continue reading →

1. Epiphytic Mosses Since the onset of winter I have been out with my nose to trees and paths looking at the moss and liverwort flora of Whiteknights. This is the first in a series of blog posts describing some of the species I have … Continue reading →

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Whiteknights is an amazing teaching resource. Recently I led a lichen ‘walk’ for the Reading District Natural History Society from the car-park in front of the Harborne Building. I’ve put ‘walk’ in inverted commas because we really didn’t walk very … Continue reading →